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Peripheral Vascular Disease - References
Keep blood flowing freely through your legs and other parts of your body. According to research or other evidence, the following self-care steps may be helpful.
- Support your circulation
Ask your healthcare provider for advice on restoring or maintaining good circulation by exercising, avoiding prolonged standing or sitting, and using compression stockings
- Discover inositol hexaniacinate
Take 1,200 mg a day of this nutritional supplement to help prevent and treat skin ulcers caused by peripheral vascular disease
- Say good-bye to smoking
Avoid the damaging effects of nicotine on blood flow by kicking the habit
Also indexed as:
- peripheral arterial disease,
- peripheral artery disease,
- peripheral vascular disease,
- PVD
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Last Review: 05-11-2011
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